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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



Good, a botanic gardener, of whose merit the great number 

 of valuable plants from that country, now in his Majesty's 

 garden, are a sufficient testimony. It may possibly grow 

 wild still more to the south, in the Island of Van Dieman, 

 having ripened seeds with us, and lived through winter in the 

 open air, near East Cowes, where I planted it two years ago. 



VERATREiE. 



Aletris Farinosa. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1418. cum Ic. 

 Wurmbea bullata. Willd. Hort. Ber. w. 8. cum Ic. 



One of the most difficult plants to preserve here for any 

 length of time, that I know : at Bulstrode, however, it lived 

 and flowered several years, in a border of peat earth, mixed 

 with sand, under the shade of Azaleas and Rhododendrons. 



Lloydia Alpina. MSS. Anthericum serotinum. Smith 

 in Engl. Bot. n. 793. cum Ic. — Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 444. 

 Bulbosa alpina juncifolia, &c. Ray Syn. ed. 3. p. 374. 

 /. 17./. 1. 



A very rare British plant, which, I have no doubt, might 

 be cultivated in a border of peat earth, kept constantly 

 moist, and shaded by pales or a wall, not under trees or 

 shrubs; for Dr. William Alexander, of Halifax, who, 

 like Sir Thomas Gage, was near losing his life in climbing 

 to the dangerous summits where it grows wild, preserved it 

 many years in his garden. I sacrificed a plant given to me, by 

 the former of those friends, in examining the root, which is not 

 bulbous, but most faithfully represented by Mr. Sowerby, 

 in his excellent figure above quoted. As it constitutes a 

 distinct genus, I have named it after the celebrated Edward 

 Llhwyd, Esq. who communicated so many scarce plants to 



